Book IV
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Book IV is the concluding section of John Locke’s "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding," in which he develops his influential theory of knowledge, including the nature, extent, and limits of human understanding.
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book section
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philosophical text → |
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human knowledge is limited
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much of our belief is based on probability rather than certainty → we can have certain knowledge only in some domains → |
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John Locke
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early modern empiricism
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| centralTheme |
what can be known and with what degree of assurance
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
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Locke’s mature epistemology
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| discusses |
certainty
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degrees of assent → faith and reason → knowledge of the existence of God → knowledge of the external world → probability → relations of ideas and matters of fact → |
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extent of human knowledge
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limits of human knowledge → nature of human knowledge → |
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689)
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theory of knowledge
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| genre |
epistemology
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| influenced |
Enlightenment philosophy
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later empiricist epistemology → |
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
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17th century
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| structure |
divided into chapters
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| workAddressedTo |
learned readers of early modern Europe
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English
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
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